What is the ruling on working for a company that manages clients' financial and banking accounts and records the interest-based (usurious) gains incurred by them, knowing that the company does not lend to or borrow from banks, and that the usurious transactions occur between the client and the bank? Is the money earned from this work permissible or forbidden? And what is the ruling on the money accumulated during previous years of work, in the event of ignorance of its prohibition? Is it permissible to perform Umrah with this money? And what is the ruling on the profits resulting from trading with money earned from this work?
Your act of paying and recording interest, and similar actions, involves a kind of assistance in usury (riba). Therefore, it is not permissible for you to work in what you mentioned, unless you can avoid the forbidden aspects within it.
As for what you earned from this part of your work before you knew its ruling, there is no blame upon you for benefiting from it in any permissible ways you wish; because Allah Almighty says: ﴿So whoever receives an admonition from his Lord and desists, he may have what has already passed.﴾
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